The
High End of the Domain Market Took a Breather This Week But Two
Older 7-Figure Sales Came to Light

After producing a long string of
six-figure sales in recent weeks the high end of the domain market
finally took a breather this week with no sales reported at that
lofty level. That left the door open for Go
Daddy/Afternic
to claim the top spot on this week's all extension Top 20 Sales
Chart with their $25,000 sale of GoodNeighbors.com.
Go Daddy/Afternic went on to pile up 10 of the 20 chart entries,
including the biggest non .com gTLD sale - #4 (tie) Diamonds.info
at $20,000.

Sedo
also had a big week, claiming eight places on the elite list with a
roster led by #2 OCG.com at €16,500 ($22,770) and #4
(tie) 1FirstBank.com at $20,000.

Drop.com.au
filled the #3 slot with the week's biggest ccTLD sale, Appliances.com.au
at $20,454. AlanAdlari.com
also earned chart honors by selling #4 (tie) Reklam.net for $20,000.
No other non .com gTLDs reached the Top 20, but the ccTLDs did put
two more names on the Big Board (both sold at Sedo): #16 PrimeTime.de
at $11,167 and #18 (tie) Lock.co at $10,000.
The .coms vacuumed up everything else, ending up with 15
chart entries overall.

By
Ron Jackson

While it was quiet at the high end this
week, two older blockbuster sales came to light for the first
time. The exact prices paid for those could not be pinned down
tightly enough for us to chart them, but they provide further
examples of the many big sales that are done off the radar.

The largest of those appears to be the
sale of JD.com to a Chinese e-commerce giant (commonly known
as JingDong),which George Kirikos uncovered
while poring through the new owner's SEC
filing. Kirikos found a line item at the end of 2012
that showed the company had spent more that $5.2 million on
domains that year. JD.com wasn't the only domain they bought but it
was easily the most valuable. That led to speculation that
JD.com may have represented as much as $5 million of the total
spent.

The second seven-figure sale that
came to light was brought to our attention by George Hong of Guta.com
who let us know about a
Chinese report from a reliable source who said that VIP.com sold for
$2 million last year. Hong said, "VIPShop.com
bought VIP.com and rebranded itself with that name a few months
back. The exact sale price was revealed in a recent Weibo.com post
from respected blogger龚文祥,
who has over 200,000 followers." The blogger cited
employees at VIP.com as his source for the $2 million price and
while we believe the report is accurate, we can't chart it
without better documentation. Thanks to both George Hong and George
Kirikos for digging out these reports and passing them along so we
could share them with you.

Now
back to our regular programming! Here is how all of the sales leaders
stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Feb. 16:

Keep in mind that these are the highest
value cash only sales that have been reported to us in the
past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool,
not a complete list documenting ALL high
value domain sales. Such a list is impossible to produce
because many sales are kept private at the insistence of
buyers, sellers or both. Our procedure for verifying the
accuracy of domain sales reports is available here.

Three others - 7379.com, EagleInc.com and
Orli.com - lanced $5,000 apiece while PremierMatch.com
and SipAndSizzle.com sold for $4,999 each.
Go Daddy/Afternic had 107 more four-figure
.com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,800
that are
listed in the table below:

Additional
Go Daddy/Afternic .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,800

ce21.com

$4,800

capacityservices.com

$2,688

TATASOLAR.com

$4,750

gridsquad.com

$2,688

agilewise.com

$4,500

inker.com

$2,650

revelmedia.com

$4,500

RelatedWebsites.com

$2,640

taggler.com

$4,500

ARTherapy.com

$2,600

cord-blood.com

$4,388

Creative-Works.com

$2,588

fxgate.com

$4,300

denvercounseling.com

$2,588

startingpoints.com

$4,295

excessit.com

$2,588

macrx.com

$4,188

deertrax.com

$2,500

diytax.com

$4,088

exqu.com

$2,500

conversis.com

$4,000

gamestocks.com

$2,500

grabyourdream.com

$4,000

getinvest.com

$2,500

motortimes.com

$4,000

indianachevy.com

$2,500

netleaseproperties.com

$4,000

lingoland.com

$2,500

pplife.com

$4,000

pokerpassport.com

$2,500

spacewars.com

$4,000

sellersedge.com

$2,500

tutormarket.com

$4,000

sfshipyard.com

$2,500

vfinity.com

$4,000

texasbankruptcy.com

$2,500

investorz.com

$3,988

therapeas.com

$2,500

brandwiki.com

$3,888

tuneage.com

$2,500

blulagoon.com

$3,829

BlogZing.com

$2,499

endetail.com

$3,819

fingerprintpayment.com

$2,495

achievethedream.com

$3,688

flipdaddy.com

$2,495

medkits.com

$3,688

divaldi.com

$2,450

realfoundation.com

$3,688

MSBLEGAL.com

$2,400

powerfishing.com

$3,588

propertiesinmotion.com

$2,400

ServiceWebsites.com

$3,545

utahsurgical.com

$2,400

estateguru.com

$3,500

medicaledge.com

$2,395

healthyhomecompany.com

$3,500

schnabeltier.com

$2,388

IrishApps.com

$3,500

tileelements.com

$2,388

seamlessflooring.com

$3,500

medkinect.com

$2,350

MachineryAppraisals.com

$3,495

asken.com

$2,300

staffdiscount.com

$3,488

customclubfitting.com

$2,225

wisdomgarden.com

$3,400

attorneyintexas.com

$2,200

thinkmarket.com

$3,388

referralbook.com

$2,200

budgetbroadband.com

$3,288

dialanywhere.com

$2,188

changecommunication.com

$3,288

ombudsperson.com

$2,177

drinkfit.com

$3,250

saltysweet.com

$2,077

onesandzeros.com

$3,200

2016themovie.com

$2,036

nanoexpressnews.com

$3,051

BelHotel.com

$2,000

bestvaporizer.com

$3,050

bfpz.com

$2,000

outdoorvoices.com

$3,050

churchball.com

$2,000

ardholdings.com

$3,000

dotcomwebdesign.com

$2,000

blowingrockfurniture.com

$3,000

freebucks.com

$2,000

canadianexpress.com

$3,000

globalsure.com

$2,000

MerchantGuard.com

$3,000

hempclothes.com

$2,000

purecomedy.com

$3,000

hempfarms.com

$2,000

resultsnutrition.com

$3,000

hopnet.com

$2,000

runningworldwide.com

$3,000

mobstore.com

$2,000

worldwidedog.com

$3,000

niam.com

$2,000

nationalpestcontrol.com

$2,999

rockrewards.com

$2,000

xhail.com

$2,888

royalauto.com

$2,000

apartmentready.com

$2,800

tradekings.com

$2,000

employeereferralprogram.com

$2,726

Elsewhere, Flippa.com
sold FlappyBirds.com for $6,760, AlanAdlari.com
moved Ucakbilet.com for $6,000 and Taksijet.com
for $2,500 and GenericDomainMarket.com
sold MobileAppsCompany.com through Sedo for $3,499.

Country
Codes

The ccTLDs were led by the three five-figure sales you saw in the all extension section above
with Appliances.com.au setting the pace at $20,454.
The biggest sale from this
category that you haven't seen yet is #4 on our latest Country Code Top
20 Sales Chart. That is Ja.ma, a domain that Sedo
sold for $9,188. Butter.co.uk rounded out the
first five with a $9,018 sale at DomainLore.co.uk.

Sedo rang up 7 of the next 8 biggest sales and
wound up sweeping 16 of 20 chart entries overall. Go
Daddy/Afternic had one of the top ten sales that Sedo missed,
banking $5,000 for #10 Awake.us.

Germany's .de won the extension race with
seven charted sales. Colombia's .co was next with three
and Great Britain's .co.uk had two. Here is how the
country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Feb.
16:

If there are country code extensions in our report
that you are not familiar with, you can look up the nation each
extension goes with here.

Non .com gTLDs (.biz, .info, .mobi,
.net, .org, .asia, .pro & .tel)

We have a tie at the top of our latest
weekly Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart. Diamonds.info
and Reklam.net changed hands for $20,000. each. Go
Daddy/Afternic handled the Diamonds.info sale while the
Reklam.net sale went through AlanAdlari.com (who had two more
top ten sales including #4 Yemet.net at $9,200)

Sedo rounded out the first five with #3 LIF.org
at $9,888 and #5 (tie) Collateral.org at $8,500.
Go Daddy/Afternic shared that #5 slot with their $8,500
sale of Cubicles.net.

This week's chart also includes a sprinkling of new
gTLDs with #8 Tire.guru ($5,250), #18 Street.photography
($2,840) and #20 Finde.singles ($2,760). Old hand .net
easily won the extension race though, piling up 11 chart
entries.

Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders
stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Feb. 16:

Sedo answered with Myuni.org at $2,500,
FQ.biz at $2,400 and GetBack.net at $2,200.
GAGroup.net notched $1,900, Simulation.net
drew $1,500 and RedDiamond.net returned $1,449.
Recruitment-Software.org went for $1,200, SFO.info
found $1,188 and two others - Boatshed.info and Democrates.org
delivered $1,000 each.

Now that you're up to date on what happened over the
past week, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all
categories by visiting our Year
To Date Charts page.

*****

As always, we welcome all verifiable sales reports
from companies, private sellers or individuals with knowledge of an
important sale made through any channel. To contribute information and
help make this column better, just drop a note to editor@dnjournal.com.
We truly appreciate the industry leading companies who share their
sales information with us to help everyone in the business get a
handle on current domain values.

Every Wednesday we publish the highest
reported domain name sales for the previous week. On Mondays and
Tuesdays our contributors send us their sales data for the previous
7 days. We then compile that information and write this article to
give you the most comprehensive sales report in the industry.

Editor's Note: If you wish to review
previous Domain
Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.